Harvard Students Demonstrate Facial Recognition Hack Using Meta Ray-Ban Glasses

The experiment shows the potential privacy risks of combining AI with smart glasses, despite Meta's decision not to include facial recognition technology.

• Two Harvard students hacked Meta Ray-Ban glasses to perform facial recognition by feeding video streams to a separate AI software on a laptop.
• The students' software, named I-XRAY, uses PimEyes to find matching images online and extract personal information from various databases.
• Meta's smart glasses do not have built-in facial recognition, and the company has previously considered but rejected adding such features due to privacy concerns.
• The demonstration highlights the ease with which personal data can be accessed using publicly available facial recognition tools combined with AI.
• There are no federal laws against using facial recognition systems, though some U.S. states have regulations, and tech companies have faced backlash over similar technologies.

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